The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-10-06
Loves Triumph.


On that rock bound shore,
Ceased to surge and to swell in waves noun.
tain high,
Ceased to toss its foam angrily up towards
the sky,
Ceased its horrible roar.
Then she stole from her cot, with her babe
closely pressed
Gainst her heart, which had wildly rhrobbed
in her breast
Through the wearisUne night;
And she moved to the cliffs, which stood high
and steep,
And, with wide-staring eyes, looked out on
the deep
In the clear morning Light.
That vast sea was as smooth as lake that's
at rest;
Not wave could be seen upon its broad
As it rolled to the land;
Yet it silently swept far up on the beach,
Every time it came up striving higher to
reach
Upon the bleak strand.
For moment her heart was filled with af-
fright,
While she gazed on the sea, lit by mornings
clear light,
And saw far and near,
On the breast of the deep, bits of hull and Of
mast,
Which told of the tempest that DER it had
passed
In that night bleak and drear.
Twas her fisherman husband for whom she
feared;
For his boat on the ocean she eagerly peered,
But no sail was in sight;
Then her eyes CHANGED to turn from the sea
to the land,
And she saw mans form lying still on the
In the clear morning light
Something strange in that form for bres th
stopped her heart,
Something known in that form caused the
life blood to dart
Through her bosom once more;
For a moment she scarcely could gather her
breath,
For moment her face was as ghastly as
death,
As she gazed at the shore.
Then she rushed to her hut, took the babe
from her breast,
And leaving the child in his cradle to rest,
She hastened to go
Down the path, that was cut in the cliffs
rugged side.
To the sands where the oceans still rising
tide
Came steady and slow.
With fast beating heart along the dry
Which the incoming tide was trying tc
reach,
She flew DER the ground;
In the form which lay there, as if dead, on its
side,
In the spot where twas left by the last rising
tide,
Her husband was found
At his side in an instant she dropped on her
| And eagerly peered at his features to sec
Were he living OF dead;
But she saw that his face was as ghastly a.
| death,
And there camc from his lips not even
breath
AS she lifted his head.
Then the shirt DER his breast she tore quickly
! apart,
And her quivcring hand she placed on hi
heart
For a moments brief space;
As she felt his hearts throb, uncertain AM
slight,
Her breast filled with joy, her eyes shon
with a light
| Which transformed her face
He was CHASTITY and cold as he lay on tn
At the spot unto which he'd been swept o
4 the strand
BY that terrible storm,
But her heart leaped for joy in the breast o
that wife,
there was life
| In that almost dead form.
With the strength of giant, born of he
love-
She carried that form to the cliff f-top above
From the surf-beaten shore;
And she dared on the way not moment
rest,
Lest the heart that so family beat in b
breast
Should cease evermore.
To their cot, near at hand, her burden sh
And, though her frame shook as she entere
the door,
Her heart did not quail;
Yet she sighed when she'd placed his forl
on the bed,
For his eyes were wide staring as If he wei
dead,
And his face ghastly pale.
With the courage of love she fought for b
life,
With the vigor of love she entered the stril
And conquered grim Death;
For she saw, in good time, light gleam in h
eye,
And she heard with delight from his bosom
sigh,
And she felt his faint breath.
Love had won, as oft times it had won
fore;
Love had won, as it will till our loving
DER,
Till we pass from this earth;
Strength had come to her arms as her hu
band she BORE
Strength had como to her frame that she
ne'er known before
Till love gave it birth.
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